With this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, we return our focus to the strategic role of the IS function and to issues of innovation. We do so on the basis of the recognition that it is the norm today for the IT shop to be, or have the potential to be, a boundary-spanning function.
August 2008
July 2008
"Efficiency is not the winning card. The competitive game is won by businesses that know how to balance entrepreneurial and managerial modes of organizing in the innovation process."
-- Daniel Hjorth, Guest Editor
We Need Science
The trial-and-error approach to innovation is risky, ambiguous, and offers uncertain ROI. We need to take a more predictable approach to developing innovative solutions.
In this issue:- What's the Art in the "Art of Innovation"?
- Innovation Is an Art -- Here's Why
- The Business of Jazz: The Role of Improvisation in Fueling Creative Innovation
- Positive Deviants Rule!
- Creating an Agile Work Environment to Nurture Innovation: Lessons from the Performing Arts
- Sparking Innovation: The Art of Software Process
- TRIZ: The Art of Systematic Innovation
July 2008
This month's Cutter Benchmark Review marks the third installment in our annual series on IT budgets and the yearly IT budgeting process. The budgeting process is one of critical importance to IT and business professionals in our subscriber base. It is the importance of this process that leads us to address it each year. Doing so also allows us to comment on year-over-year changes and monitor how the priorities of the organizations we survey change over time.
June 2008
In this issue we look at forecasting and forecasting techniques in the business and organizational setting.
In this issue:- Seeing the Future: Proliferating Data Sources and Forecasting Techniques Make It — Opening Statement
- Improving and Leveraging Your Forecasting Practices
- Forecasting in Business: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
- Forecasting and IT: Should a Tight Relationship Lead to a Merger?
- Forecasting Survey Data
June 2008
"There appears to be a bit of a paradox between the massive and recent consolidation in ES and the excitement for and growth of SaaS and E 2.0. If E 2.0 and SaaS are such great opportunities, why are vendors still consolidating?"
-- Vince Kellen, Guest Editor
New Tech, New Life
Enterprise software (ES) is changing. Adoption of SOA, SaaS, and E 2.0 technologies is breathing new life into the ES market. This bodes well for firms seeking more ES flexibility and ease of use.
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